You know you're tired when...

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You know you're tired when you try to make a cup of tea only to release you haven't boiled the kettle and have now wasted a perfectly good tea bag... *cries in silence

You actually fall asleep standing up.

You put clothes into the bin instead of the washing machine and then wonder why the machine is empty

Fall asleep whilst hoovering. At work.

Start taking your eye makeup off. Find it's not coming off. Then realise that the black smudges around your eyes are simply signs of tiredness, not makeup at all!

Open a pack of paper hand towels and put them straight in the bin, whilst filling the dispenser with the plastic wrapper.

When leaving the house, instead of closing the door and double locking with a key - you stand pointing your car key fob at the front door attempting to lock it.

You try and put a dummy in your husband's mouth instead of the baby's 🤭

I spent a whole year telling anyone who asked that I was 32. I was 31 🧐 Also regularly gave that days date when asked for date of birth 🙈 (eg, 18th Dec 2020).
Had a giggle at my husband and son for not knowing who Santa’s rainbows were and who exactly they thought were pulling his sleigh. My seven year old head tilted at me.

Mine’s not that funny. Packed kids into car and went on twenty five mile trip. Parked car and went to get kids out only to discover that I hadn’t strapped the baby seat into the car. It was just sitting on the seat. With the newborn baby in it. I made dh double check everything I did after that, I scared myself.

Driving down the road. Nipping out to post a letter. Getting back into the passenger side of the car and sitting there for some considerable time wondering why I wasn't going anywhere. Before realising I was the driver!

When you're at the Chinese restaurant, finish your crispy duck pancakes and wash your hands in your jasmine tea.....
I did wonder why they'd given us such a teeny finger bowl

You wake up desperately scrabbling down the duvet cover because you're hallucinating that you've dropped your baby between the duvet and the cover and they're suffocating. You're screaming because you can't find them.

Or bawling your eyes out because you dreamt that you dropped baby out of a third floor window in a trance when the screaming became too much.

In both cases, baby was sound asleep in the cot.

When you pour prune juice instead of milk into your tea 😭 (DD1 was newborn and I was constipated!)

When you try to unlock your front door by beeping the car fob at it repeatedly, confused as to why it's not working...

I passed my sister a tommee tippee cup instead of a glass of wine , she must have been equally tired as she just started drinking it

@Shadow1986

When leaving the house, instead of closing the door and double locking with a key - you stand pointing your car key fob at the front door attempting to lock it.

Or, in my case: walking up to the front door after coming back from a lockdown walk, and pointing the key fob at the door to open it.

Also: going to make a cup of tea and nearly pouring the milk into the kettle.

...you've been at child health clinic for 20 minutes before realising your top is inside out and you have odd shoes on.

You rock up to work wearing one brown boot and one black boot. My only defence was it was an early shift so was dark when I set out and they were a similar cut/heel.

You finally get everyone loaded into the car, reverse out the drive and realise the front door is still wide open. Well actually I didn’t realise, my three year old told me.

I also have had to check my phone to see where I live a couple of times...

Cannot remember if I washed hair in shower half way through an early Morning blow dry. 12 hours later the later same day fell asleep watching a Facebook video whilst holding up phone.

You don't know which way you are facing in bed and are confused when you need to get up, like not knowing which way is up after going down some swimming pool slides.

You fall asleep in the dentists chair in the middle of a treatment

You leave the petrol station. It’s 7 o’clock. It’s summer. You can’t remember whether you were heading to work or heading home before you stopped for petrol.

My dc was having a medical appointment where they had to induce sleep and monitor them...I also fell asleep the nurse woke me up

You go to the GP with mastitis. They recommend you take the antibiotics, and say women can some times end up hospitalised if it goes untreated. A fleeting thought occurs that a couple of nights in hospital might actually involve more sleep than being at home with the baby!

@Oryxx i was wondering hopefully if the twinges I felt yesterday might be appendicitis and therefore a few blissful nights in hospital and lots of post op napping! I have a 9mo, 3yo, working 5days plus all Christmas prep.
I. Am. Shattered.